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Speaker 1: And welcome in Lake Kig is live.

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Speaker 2: It is Tuesday night, October thirteenth year of our Laura

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Speaker 2: twenty twenty.

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Speaker 1: The struggle very very real.

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Speaker 2: Probably, Colin, I would say, is real as it's ever

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Speaker 2: been on the show tonight, because we consider ourselves to

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Speaker 2: be very responsible. We are professional, and we present this

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Speaker 2: show in the first class manner. But I would be

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Speaker 2: lying to you, folks if I didn't tell you that

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Speaker 2: the Atlanta Brea's game's right on this computer right here,

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Speaker 2: so you see.

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Speaker 1: Me minimize it.

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Speaker 2: Colin is minimized, and I am dialed in for the

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Speaker 2: next thirty minutes to an hour, however long this show takes.

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Speaker 1: It is jam packed. This is Prediction Tuesday.

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Speaker 2: We get our predictions out of the way forty eight

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Speaker 2: hours ahead of when most people do it, so we're

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Speaker 2: not affected by what everyone else thinks.

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Speaker 1: Hopefully.

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Speaker 2: Knock on Wood Georgia at Alabama. No other way to

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Speaker 2: classify it or categorize it. Rather, it is the game

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Speaker 2: of the year in the Southeast Conference. We're breaking it

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Speaker 2: down tonight from every angle we know how to break

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Speaker 2: it down from. I'm also going to talk about a

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Speaker 2: lot of drama at Texas, so much so that I

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Speaker 2: know some of you, like if you are, for instance,

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Speaker 2: a Kentucky football fan, maybe you don't care a lot

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Speaker 2: about Texas. But what I try and do if we

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Speaker 2: narrow in on one program, I try and discuss it

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Speaker 2: in a broad way where obviously it impacts the people

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Speaker 2: who pull for the program, but also this is a

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Speaker 2: ripple effect kind of topic. What happens at Texas. Texas

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Speaker 2: is what I call a keystone well. Keystone species is

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Speaker 2: the is the geological term. Dude, what would it be

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Speaker 2: called column biological term?

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Speaker 1: I don't know.

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Speaker 2: It has to do with nature. So in nature you

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Speaker 2: have keystone species. A crocodile, for example, is a keystone species.

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Speaker 2: What they do affects the entire ecosystem, ecological well, Texas

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Speaker 2: and college football is a keystone program. What happens there

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Speaker 2: and at Alabama and Southern cal it has a ripple effect.

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Speaker 1: So we're going to discuss that tonight.

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Speaker 2: Within the contextuff the entire sport of college football. Also,

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Speaker 2: today a big day at twenty four to seven Sports

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Speaker 2: because released the updated Talent Composite, the twenty four to

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Speaker 2: seven Team Talent Composite.

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Speaker 1: It's basically it's how talented are you.

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Speaker 2: Talent alone does not win games, but you got to

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Speaker 2: have some talent to win at the highest level.

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Speaker 1: So we're going to talk about that, and there have been.

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Speaker 2: Some moves, a few notable takeaways to talk about on

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Speaker 2: that tonight. Also, we've got two more best bets on

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Speaker 2: the Rama Noodle Express, which is cooking so much so

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Speaker 2: that even I undersold us on Sunday. I came on

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Speaker 2: the show and I said, Rama Noodle Express, we're hitting

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Speaker 2: at fifty eight percent, and that's wrong. I lied to you.

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Speaker 2: We're actually at sixty percent. Let's get it started. Georgia

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Speaker 2: at Alabama. Alabama Sunday night was a four point favorite.

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Speaker 2: Alabama is now a six point favorite, and I'm sure

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Speaker 2: that that line is not done moving just yet. This

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Speaker 2: is a Saturday night primetime game on CBS. I think

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Speaker 2: it's the second time in as many years George's played

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Speaker 2: it was the Notre Dame game Saturday night, eight o'clock, eastern,

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Speaker 2: seventh Central in BRYANTONNY Stadium on CBS.

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Speaker 1: As I said, this.

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Speaker 2: Has become to me the premier rivalry in the SEC,

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Speaker 2: But this is something that has risen to the level

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Speaker 2: And so I mean, look at the Marquis this week.

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Speaker 2: There's a reason that they zoomed in on this one

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Speaker 2: very very early in the offseason said that's the one

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Speaker 2: we want for the primetime game. Consider what Nick Saban

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Speaker 2: I think there is a lot of minus here. I

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Speaker 2: to think about twenty twelve, that's the SEC championship game.

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Speaker 2: Alabama edges Georgia. Either one of them was going to

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Speaker 2: So Nick Saban stands directly in between Georgia and a

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Speaker 1: That's all that stands between Georgia and another national championship.

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Speaker 2: And then the year after that, there they are in

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Speaker 2: the SEC Championship and it's again Nick Saban's team standing

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Speaker 2: between Georgia and a shot to go play for a

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Speaker 1: So you never know what Georgia.

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Speaker 2: You never know, at least in the last decade, what

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Speaker 2: Georgia would have achieved if not for Nick Saban.

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Speaker 1: But I'm going to make a counterpoint.

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Speaker 2: Look at the level this program, Georgia, this program's operating at,

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Speaker 2: Saban and Tuscaloosa on Mark Rick at Georgia, he may

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Speaker 2: the willingness from a lot of people up there in

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Speaker 1: And I think we all.

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Speaker 2: Understand what I'm talking about here, you got to say

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Speaker 2: yes on everything. They finally gave this man, Kirby Smart,

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Speaker 2: everything he needed to compete. And so now guess that's

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Speaker 2: what they're doing. We're going to talk about it later in

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Speaker 2: the most talented roster into this game Saturday Night. When's

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Speaker 2: the last thame you said that about an Alabama game?

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Speaker 2: This thing shares a lot of similarity I think with

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Speaker 2: circumstances where Alabama had already lost a game, ironically to

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Speaker 2: in that game as an underdog. Now, Alabama's favored in

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Speaker 2: I can't remember a regular season game where there had

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Speaker 1: But let me tell you what the difference is.

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Speaker 2: The difference is in that twenty fifteen game, the Alabama

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Speaker 1: I was totally convinced they were going in there and winning.

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Speaker 2: I felt really good about Alabama in that game, even

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Speaker 2: We also we know something about that twenty fifteen game

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Speaker 2: very important point as we start to dive into this game.

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Speaker 2: That twenty fifteen team and the twenty sixteen team.

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Speaker 1: The style of play they love to call it murder ball.

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Speaker 2: There there was a collective DNA about the guys they had,

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Speaker 2: specifically on that defense. They had I would venture to

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Speaker 2: we know that team had it, don't know if this

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Speaker 1: How is Alabama favorite in this game?

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Speaker 2: If you have asked me this one time, You've asked

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Speaker 2: answered it kind of on the lay Kick Extra podcast

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Speaker 2: for that, But I'm going to kind of answer it

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Speaker 2: again here. Public perception is kind of like water, whereas

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Speaker 2: an odds maker's perception, it's kind of like honey. Think

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Speaker 2: about the different speeds that these move at. I've always

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Speaker 2: made it metaphorical to this. If I had two plates

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Speaker 2: then I just turned the plates upside down, what's going

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Speaker 2: but it creeps and creeps and creeps like.

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Speaker 1: A little sloth, and it takes a while.

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Speaker 2: It'll eventually be on the table, just like the water,

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Speaker 2: but it takes it a lot longer. And that's kind

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Speaker 2: of how an odds maker. You're asking me how Bama's favored,

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Speaker 2: That's how an odds maker views this, Because if you

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Speaker 2: take yourself back to just a week ago, Forget forget

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Speaker 2: a month ago, forget the beginning of the season.

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Speaker 1: Just a week ago.

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Speaker 2: If you were to ask yourself, all right, uh, Bama

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Speaker 2: and Georgia struggled with Arkansas for a half and then

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Speaker 2: I mean they didn't even top thirty points, Like we

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Speaker 2: don't really still know what their ultimate ceiling is. Offensive

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Speaker 2: I saw the Alabama defense shredded just as much as

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Speaker 1: I saw Georgia.

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Speaker 2: Dominate the second half against Tennessee just as much as

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Speaker 2: no world is an odds maker's opinion of a matchup

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Speaker 2: changing that much over the span of one week. Let's

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Speaker 2: dive in here areas of focus on this game. I

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Speaker 2: just mentioned it. What we knew about the twenty fifteen

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Speaker 2: Bama team that we don't know about this one killer instinct.

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Speaker 2: It's what every great Nick Saban team, or for that matter,

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Speaker 2: just every great football team period has had. Saban's had

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Speaker 2: a bunch of them, and they've had that. And let

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Speaker 2: Georgia team.

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Speaker 1: I think they have it. That defense especially has it.

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Speaker 2: I would imagine Nick Saban and that staff watching Georgia

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Speaker 2: film this week, and it looks pretty familiar.

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Speaker 1: That's how they used to look. Now.

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Speaker 2: I would also argue Nick Saban looked at his offense

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Speaker 2: and says, boy, I could replicate I could put in

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Speaker 2: a bottle what my defenses used to be mentally, and

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Speaker 2: I could put it in this offense right now, and

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Speaker 2: I wouldn't be able to tell the difference because Vama's

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Speaker 2: offense is every bit what Georgia's defense is. I'm talking

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Speaker 2: about in the intangible category. I'm not talking about match

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Speaker 2: to focus on, can Georgia convert trend to identity. You

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Speaker 2: have watched them in the second half this season just

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Speaker 2: totally splatter people. It is a sixty two to six,

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Speaker 2: that's what they're outscoring the opposition by. Currently in second

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Speaker 2: Or you could just believe both of those, and you

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Speaker 1: As much as I said here last week, and I

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Speaker 1: That would be a big deal.

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Speaker 1: Everyone's looking for an angle, and that's fine.

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Speaker 2: I think a lot of people have lazily, for lack

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Speaker 1: Everyone until the end of time.

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Speaker 2: I don't care how good you are defensively. That's the

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Speaker 2: They ran anyway. And I think at least early on,

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Speaker 2: Kirby Smart's not an idiot. Kirby Smart and Toddmunkin not idiots.

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Speaker 2: They watched this film against Ole miss and I'm it's

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Speaker 2: going to be radically different man. Alabama was a Nickel

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Speaker 2: just some adjectives I can't really use on air to

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Speaker 1: You either as a collective identa you either have that

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Speaker 2: And I don't see any reason why Georgia shouldn't try

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Speaker 2: So conventional wisdom would say, all right, we got to

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Speaker 1: I think they'll run into it anyway.

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Speaker 2: I think they believe they have that much of a

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Speaker 1: I think Georgia believes that.

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Speaker 2: it's just that Normally in the past, when Alabama checked

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Speaker 2: I got enough depth at receiver, and I got enough

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Speaker 2: I don't need to max protect every time. Here, I

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Speaker 2: other thing. The way to beat Alabama's not outside anyway, man.

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Speaker 2: I mean, George Pickens is a great guy to have

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Speaker 1: That's not how Old Miss beat them anyway.

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Speaker 2: I mean they're two top receivers had under thirty yards

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Speaker 1: Hashes if they're gonna beat you.

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Speaker 2: But if they start having if they Georgia start having

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Speaker 2: They had forty four plays run in the first half.

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Speaker 2: I think likes his odds both ways. Here, let's start

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Speaker 2: And you know, they do a lot of I mentioned

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Speaker 1: And let me tell you something. Georgia gets down near

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Speaker 2: Alabama has not been a good goal line defensive team

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Speaker 2: I know that they got shut out of the end

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Speaker 2: In fact, I don't think they have someone who can

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Speaker 1: I don't think that human exists in college football.

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Speaker 2: May not even exist at the next level consistently, and

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Speaker 2: it's a blessing for Alabama that John Mechi has developed

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Speaker 2: I think Miller Forstall has really come on for them

438
00:19:05,280 --> 00:19:08,480
Speaker 2: as a legitimate receiving option at tight end, and he's

439
00:19:08,480 --> 00:19:10,560
Speaker 2: a good enough inline blocker to where you don't have

440
00:19:10,640 --> 00:19:12,639
Speaker 2: to necessarily sell what you're gonna do when he's on

441
00:19:12,720 --> 00:19:14,600
Speaker 2: the field. But I want you to think about this.

442
00:19:14,760 --> 00:19:16,600
Speaker 2: If I'm Kirby Smart and I'm looking at my defense,

443
00:19:17,520 --> 00:19:18,840
Speaker 2: I'm gonna contest everything.

444
00:19:19,760 --> 00:19:20,640
Speaker 1: But you throw some.

445
00:19:20,680 --> 00:19:23,440
Speaker 2: Slants to Jalen Waddle as long as I'm sure tackling

446
00:19:23,480 --> 00:19:26,280
Speaker 2: which Georgia is, I'm okay with that. Okay, you pick

447
00:19:26,359 --> 00:19:28,880
Speaker 2: up ten twelve yards, I'm fine with that. I want

448
00:19:28,880 --> 00:19:30,440
Speaker 2: to get you down inside the red zone.

449
00:19:30,440 --> 00:19:30,760
Speaker 1: Okay.

450
00:19:30,880 --> 00:19:32,720
Speaker 2: The game's gonna start for me against you when I

451
00:19:32,760 --> 00:19:34,080
Speaker 2: get you inside the red zone.

452
00:19:34,160 --> 00:19:35,680
Speaker 1: Because all that vertical.

453
00:19:35,359 --> 00:19:37,480
Speaker 2: Threat and all that speed and all that able to

454
00:19:37,560 --> 00:19:39,600
Speaker 2: pop a top off my defense, well, it doesn't exist

455
00:19:39,640 --> 00:19:42,680
Speaker 2: when I'm only defending twenty yards, fifteen yards, whatever the

456
00:19:42,720 --> 00:19:45,359
Speaker 2: case may be. And at that point, that's where I

457
00:19:45,359 --> 00:19:48,080
Speaker 2: got a lot of veteran leadership. I got a lot

458
00:19:48,119 --> 00:19:50,960
Speaker 2: of speed, I got a lot of physicality on my defense,

459
00:19:51,440 --> 00:19:53,760
Speaker 2: and you got Matt Jones over there, who has played

460
00:19:53,800 --> 00:19:57,359
Speaker 2: great this year, almost flawlessly, but he hadn't faced me.

461
00:19:57,480 --> 00:20:00,280
Speaker 1: I'm speaking as Kirby Smart now hadn't faced me. And

462
00:20:00,359 --> 00:20:01,040
Speaker 1: so when I.

463
00:20:00,960 --> 00:20:04,359
Speaker 2: Compress the field on you a little bit, knowing that turnovers,

464
00:20:04,440 --> 00:20:06,360
Speaker 2: I mean, it happened in the Iron Bowl, for example,

465
00:20:06,480 --> 00:20:07,800
Speaker 2: kind of a freak thing, but it happened in the

466
00:20:07,800 --> 00:20:10,080
Speaker 2: Iron Bowl. One turnover could mean the difference in this game.

467
00:20:10,119 --> 00:20:13,400
Speaker 2: I trust my defense to force those turnovers. So if

468
00:20:13,440 --> 00:20:15,479
Speaker 2: I were Kirby Smart, that's where the game is going

469
00:20:15,480 --> 00:20:17,040
Speaker 2: to be won and lost to me. For Georgia is

470
00:20:17,040 --> 00:20:20,159
Speaker 2: in the red zone. And conversely with Alabama explosive plays.

471
00:20:20,240 --> 00:20:21,200
Speaker 2: That's what it's all about.

472
00:20:21,280 --> 00:20:22,919
Speaker 1: I'm not saying you get nervous when you get down

473
00:20:22,960 --> 00:20:24,400
Speaker 1: inside the red zone. Quite the opposite.

474
00:20:24,440 --> 00:20:26,840
Speaker 2: But you got the home run hitters that very few

475
00:20:26,880 --> 00:20:29,520
Speaker 2: other teams in America do. You got the offensive line

476
00:20:29,560 --> 00:20:32,000
Speaker 2: that is exceptional in pass pro, the lights of which

477
00:20:32,160 --> 00:20:34,440
Speaker 2: very few teams do. You're going to face a front

478
00:20:34,600 --> 00:20:37,359
Speaker 2: that can bring you blitzes in multiple different ways, can

479
00:20:37,359 --> 00:20:39,280
Speaker 2: pressure you in multiple different ways. I think it is

480
00:20:39,320 --> 00:20:41,800
Speaker 2: the best pass rush that Georgia has had to date

481
00:20:42,040 --> 00:20:46,800
Speaker 2: under Kirby Smart. But those explosive plays and scoring not

482
00:20:46,840 --> 00:20:49,080
Speaker 2: necessarily just in the red zone, really big deal. You

483
00:20:49,119 --> 00:20:51,440
Speaker 2: know you're watching footage right here, Colin showing you those

484
00:20:51,440 --> 00:20:53,920
Speaker 2: safeties at Georgia a little bit better than the ones

485
00:20:53,920 --> 00:20:54,560
Speaker 2: at A and M.

486
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Speaker 1: But that's a big deal. It's a really big deal.

487
00:20:57,040 --> 00:20:58,800
Speaker 2: Fast start I think is also a big deal for

488
00:20:58,840 --> 00:21:01,160
Speaker 2: Alabama number one, so they can somewhat control the first

489
00:21:01,200 --> 00:21:04,040
Speaker 2: half and get Jordan battleback. Almost sounds like that LSU

490
00:21:04,080 --> 00:21:07,080
Speaker 2: game last year. Everyone said, hey, Devin White. When LSU

491
00:21:07,080 --> 00:21:08,919
Speaker 2: gets Devin White back in the second half, it's like

492
00:21:09,080 --> 00:21:10,720
Speaker 2: he's not even going to run out of the locker room.

493
00:21:10,760 --> 00:21:13,240
Speaker 2: He is going to descend from the top row with

494
00:21:13,359 --> 00:21:16,200
Speaker 2: a cape and then he's going to rectify all the problems.

495
00:21:16,200 --> 00:21:19,760
Speaker 1: No, it's not like that. Too many problems probably defensively

496
00:21:19,800 --> 00:21:21,080
Speaker 1: right now for him to rectify.

497
00:21:21,320 --> 00:21:23,880
Speaker 2: But I will say this, the last two times these

498
00:21:23,880 --> 00:21:26,119
Speaker 2: teams played george Is on the first half. If Georgia

499
00:21:26,200 --> 00:21:29,240
Speaker 2: does to Alabama stylistically in the first half of this game,

500
00:21:29,400 --> 00:21:31,200
Speaker 2: what they've done the last two times, I think George

501
00:21:31,240 --> 00:21:33,359
Speaker 2: is winning the football game. It was a miracle Alabama

502
00:21:33,400 --> 00:21:34,760
Speaker 2: was able to come back and win the last two.

503
00:21:36,200 --> 00:21:37,520
Speaker 2: There was a lot of talent and there was a

504
00:21:37,560 --> 00:21:40,520
Speaker 2: lot of execution involved. Don't think I'm telling you it

505
00:21:40,560 --> 00:21:43,879
Speaker 2: was a freak occurrence. Alabama had everything to do with that,

506
00:21:44,200 --> 00:21:46,960
Speaker 2: but they did not put themselves in the most opportune position.

507
00:21:47,880 --> 00:21:50,680
Speaker 2: You got to make sure that that's not duplicated here.

508
00:21:52,040 --> 00:21:56,200
Speaker 2: Mac Jones, there's such a bright spotlight on him. Now,

509
00:21:56,320 --> 00:21:59,240
Speaker 2: Mack Jones was thought of coming into the season as

510
00:21:59,280 --> 00:22:03,080
Speaker 2: a placeholder. You and I probably thought about the same

511
00:22:03,080 --> 00:22:04,080
Speaker 2: thing about mac Jones.

512
00:22:04,240 --> 00:22:05,480
Speaker 1: Thought he was talented enough.

513
00:22:05,800 --> 00:22:07,399
Speaker 2: Now you list if you watched the show in the

514
00:22:07,440 --> 00:22:09,560
Speaker 2: off season, you know what I thought about him. I

515
00:22:09,640 --> 00:22:12,679
Speaker 2: thought that there was a legitimate two quarterback situation at Alabama,

516
00:22:13,000 --> 00:22:15,040
Speaker 2: not in the manner that you normally would speak in.

517
00:22:15,200 --> 00:22:17,040
Speaker 2: I didn't think there was a competition for who's going

518
00:22:17,080 --> 00:22:19,600
Speaker 2: to start in Week one, But I thought Mac Jones

519
00:22:19,680 --> 00:22:22,680
Speaker 2: was going to be good, nothing more than good, gonna

520
00:22:22,720 --> 00:22:25,280
Speaker 2: be serviceable, and eventually Bryce Young is gonna take this

521
00:22:25,359 --> 00:22:27,320
Speaker 2: job over, probably somewhere down the road.

522
00:22:27,520 --> 00:22:28,000
Speaker 1: Well he may.

523
00:22:28,119 --> 00:22:30,679
Speaker 2: I don't think that road's going to be in twenty twenty,

524
00:22:30,960 --> 00:22:33,360
Speaker 2: Mac Jones has been phenomenal. Now, I want to stress

525
00:22:33,640 --> 00:22:36,240
Speaker 2: that guy's got more arm talent, and he's got much

526
00:22:36,280 --> 00:22:40,199
Speaker 2: better accuracy, and he's got much better in tangibles and

527
00:22:40,440 --> 00:22:43,280
Speaker 2: efficiency and poise than just some game manager. So I

528
00:22:43,320 --> 00:22:45,080
Speaker 2: know that term gets thrown around a whole lot for

529
00:22:45,200 --> 00:22:48,560
Speaker 2: basically anyone who doesn't look like a freak Athletically.

530
00:22:49,119 --> 00:22:50,280
Speaker 1: Mac Jones's level above that.

531
00:22:50,520 --> 00:22:52,919
Speaker 2: So I can also tell you this speaking to some

532
00:22:52,960 --> 00:22:55,360
Speaker 2: people at Alabama in the preseason, before we had ever

533
00:22:55,400 --> 00:22:58,360
Speaker 2: seen anything, any game or anything like that, I had

534
00:22:58,400 --> 00:23:01,959
Speaker 2: some people very close to that pro tell me this

535
00:23:02,080 --> 00:23:04,560
Speaker 2: offense is going to be better than it was last year. Now,

536
00:23:04,600 --> 00:23:08,600
Speaker 2: I flatly called bs on that for obvious reasons, because

537
00:23:08,640 --> 00:23:11,439
Speaker 2: you just watched a generational talent at quarterback walk out

538
00:23:11,480 --> 00:23:14,240
Speaker 2: the door and a couple of generational talents at wide

539
00:23:14,280 --> 00:23:16,639
Speaker 2: receiver walk out the door. Like any program would be

540
00:23:16,720 --> 00:23:18,320
Speaker 2: lucky in a thirty year span to have any one

541
00:23:18,320 --> 00:23:20,320
Speaker 2: of those players. You just lost all three of them.

542
00:23:20,400 --> 00:23:23,520
Speaker 2: Judy Ruggs, Tacoboy Lowy, you lost all of them. There

543
00:23:23,560 --> 00:23:26,800
Speaker 2: is no shot that you improve from that. There's no

544
00:23:26,880 --> 00:23:29,960
Speaker 2: shot that you remain on par with that. I've watched

545
00:23:30,000 --> 00:23:32,320
Speaker 2: him so far this year and I'm still not ready

546
00:23:32,400 --> 00:23:34,680
Speaker 2: to say that, but I see exactly where people were

547
00:23:34,680 --> 00:23:35,240
Speaker 2: coming from.

548
00:23:35,600 --> 00:23:37,440
Speaker 1: You got to face the test before I say that

549
00:23:37,520 --> 00:23:38,040
Speaker 1: about you.

550
00:23:38,080 --> 00:23:39,960
Speaker 2: And with all due respect, you don't prove that against

551
00:23:39,960 --> 00:23:42,160
Speaker 2: Ole miss You don't prove that against Missouri. You could

552
00:23:42,200 --> 00:23:45,199
Speaker 2: prove it against Georgia. What I think they're able to

553
00:23:45,200 --> 00:23:46,960
Speaker 2: do is I think Sarkesian is able to do a

554
00:23:47,000 --> 00:23:49,080
Speaker 2: lot more of what he wants to do with mac Jones.

555
00:23:49,320 --> 00:23:52,000
Speaker 2: Mac Jones may be a little more limited physically. He's

556
00:23:52,000 --> 00:23:53,160
Speaker 2: not a weakness physically.

557
00:23:53,280 --> 00:23:53,920
Speaker 1: He's a little more.

558
00:23:53,840 --> 00:23:56,359
Speaker 2: Limited physically, but I think that you can do a

559
00:23:56,359 --> 00:23:58,439
Speaker 2: lot more progression based play calling.

560
00:23:58,800 --> 00:24:00,359
Speaker 1: I think he's a lot more efficient.

561
00:24:00,600 --> 00:24:02,640
Speaker 2: I think he is as good a decision maker, if

562
00:24:02,640 --> 00:24:05,120
Speaker 2: not a better decision maker. He is not a guy

563
00:24:05,160 --> 00:24:06,920
Speaker 2: who is going to make the critical error, at least

564
00:24:06,960 --> 00:24:08,240
Speaker 2: I don't think that that is him.

565
00:24:08,680 --> 00:24:09,320
Speaker 1: And they got the.

566
00:24:09,240 --> 00:24:11,920
Speaker 2: Wide receiver talent, and they got a really good backfield,

567
00:24:11,960 --> 00:24:15,160
Speaker 2: and they got an exceptional offensive line pass and run,

568
00:24:15,160 --> 00:24:18,680
Speaker 2: they got an exceptional offensive line. So man talk about

569
00:24:18,680 --> 00:24:20,840
Speaker 2: an ultimate test for mac Jones. I mean Mac Jones.

570
00:24:20,880 --> 00:24:22,560
Speaker 2: That's a career night for him one way or the

571
00:24:22,600 --> 00:24:25,000
Speaker 2: other this coming Saturday, Georgia.

572
00:24:25,560 --> 00:24:26,840
Speaker 1: I want to stress this. Now.

573
00:24:26,960 --> 00:24:28,880
Speaker 2: I've said this before when they played Bam, I'm gonna

574
00:24:28,880 --> 00:24:31,960
Speaker 2: say it again. Georgia doesn't have to change anything. They

575
00:24:31,960 --> 00:24:34,280
Speaker 2: are one of the few teams on this planet. They

576
00:24:34,359 --> 00:24:37,080
Speaker 2: can go into a game against Alabama and don't have

577
00:24:37,200 --> 00:24:39,680
Speaker 2: to freak out and sit in the film room and have,

578
00:24:39,880 --> 00:24:42,080
Speaker 2: you know, take the top off their pen and write

579
00:24:42,119 --> 00:24:44,000
Speaker 2: down thirty seven things that they're going to have to

580
00:24:44,000 --> 00:24:45,520
Speaker 2: do different than they normally do if they're going to

581
00:24:45,560 --> 00:24:48,680
Speaker 2: have a shot to win. Georgia's list is like that long,

582
00:24:48,760 --> 00:24:52,480
Speaker 2: just a white piece of papers, Just be us. George

583
00:24:52,520 --> 00:24:56,000
Speaker 2: is not a talent deficit. Georgia's experienced in the big games.

584
00:24:56,320 --> 00:24:59,359
Speaker 2: Georgia is not a casualty of COVID and that they

585
00:24:59,400 --> 00:25:00,960
Speaker 2: got a bunch of new you guys, they're trying to

586
00:25:00,960 --> 00:25:02,320
Speaker 2: break in, at least on defense.

587
00:25:02,640 --> 00:25:04,719
Speaker 1: I mean, they brought back what they had last year.

588
00:25:04,760 --> 00:25:07,760
Speaker 2: There's continuity, defensive coordinators, back, head coaches, back and so

589
00:25:07,840 --> 00:25:10,199
Speaker 2: that's why they've been tearing people up defensively. But the

590
00:25:10,200 --> 00:25:12,760
Speaker 2: point is they don't think they take a back seat

591
00:25:12,760 --> 00:25:15,320
Speaker 2: to Alabama. Most people do think that even if they

592
00:25:15,320 --> 00:25:17,359
Speaker 2: don't admit so when a MIC's in front of their

593
00:25:17,359 --> 00:25:20,080
Speaker 2: face during the week, Georgia doesn't have to change anything

594
00:25:20,200 --> 00:25:22,560
Speaker 2: about who they are. Alabama doesn't have to change anything

595
00:25:22,560 --> 00:25:25,240
Speaker 2: about who they are. That's what's great about watching games

596
00:25:25,320 --> 00:25:28,160
Speaker 2: like this is you very rarely get teams that say

597
00:25:28,160 --> 00:25:33,320
Speaker 2: that when they're playing the other. Georgia or Alabama lost

598
00:25:33,400 --> 00:25:35,480
Speaker 2: in all this, and I want to kind of reiterate

599
00:25:35,520 --> 00:25:38,960
Speaker 2: this lost in all this is this whole LSU comparison.

600
00:25:39,000 --> 00:25:40,240
Speaker 1: I want to go back to this. I mentioned it

601
00:25:40,280 --> 00:25:40,840
Speaker 1: a second ago.

602
00:25:41,000 --> 00:25:42,680
Speaker 2: A lot of people are looking and they're saying, Okay,

603
00:25:42,720 --> 00:25:46,040
Speaker 2: I remember the last time Georgia faced a high octane offense.

604
00:25:46,280 --> 00:25:48,280
Speaker 2: It was in Atlanta. It was the SEC title game.

605
00:25:48,280 --> 00:25:51,400
Speaker 2: It was LSU, and hey, you know, they held their

606
00:25:51,440 --> 00:25:52,280
Speaker 2: on early on.

607
00:25:52,280 --> 00:25:52,760
Speaker 1: And they did.

608
00:25:52,840 --> 00:25:56,120
Speaker 2: Man, they played LSU tough, but then the dam eventually

609
00:25:56,160 --> 00:25:57,400
Speaker 2: broke and LSU pulled away.

610
00:25:57,480 --> 00:26:00,600
Speaker 1: So it stands to reason this is not speaking. This

611
00:26:00,640 --> 00:26:01,400
Speaker 1: is what I've heard this week.

612
00:26:01,440 --> 00:26:03,320
Speaker 2: Stands to reason if that's the last time they played

613
00:26:03,320 --> 00:26:05,720
Speaker 2: an elite offense, well, now this is the next time,

614
00:26:05,880 --> 00:26:07,280
Speaker 2: so they'll be.

615
00:26:07,600 --> 00:26:11,920
Speaker 1: What you would call it exposed again. There's a difference here. Friends.

616
00:26:11,960 --> 00:26:14,000
Speaker 2: I'm not saying Alabama's not going to have success against

617
00:26:14,000 --> 00:26:16,439
Speaker 2: them Saturday night. I expect them to have success against them.

618
00:26:16,440 --> 00:26:18,880
Speaker 2: I don't think anyone's bottling that offense up totally. They're

619
00:26:18,880 --> 00:26:21,640
Speaker 2: also not scoring fifty somewhere between zero and fifty. I'm

620
00:26:21,640 --> 00:26:26,520
Speaker 2: confident in making that prediction already. Joe Burrow had something,

621
00:26:27,119 --> 00:26:30,120
Speaker 2: probably a few things intangibly, but had something that Mac

622
00:26:30,240 --> 00:26:34,760
Speaker 2: Jones does not possess, and those are wheels. It's the

623
00:26:34,800 --> 00:26:38,119
Speaker 2: ability when everything broke down, when that Joe Moore Award

624
00:26:38,160 --> 00:26:41,240
Speaker 2: winning offensive line wasn't able to hold up. Granted it

625
00:26:41,280 --> 00:26:43,240
Speaker 2: was like seven or eight seconds, he was able to

626
00:26:43,280 --> 00:26:46,199
Speaker 2: extend the play. Mac Jones, I don't know where he

627
00:26:46,240 --> 00:26:47,679
Speaker 2: is right now. It's probably in his room, but I

628
00:26:47,680 --> 00:26:49,520
Speaker 2: can tell you where he's going to be every snap,

629
00:26:49,800 --> 00:26:52,760
Speaker 2: and that's pretty close to where he received the ball at.

630
00:26:53,240 --> 00:26:56,040
Speaker 1: That's not a guy who is utilized.

631
00:26:55,640 --> 00:26:57,600
Speaker 2: Heavily in the run game, not a lot of option

632
00:26:57,720 --> 00:27:00,280
Speaker 2: in this Alabama offense. And that's not a guy once

633
00:27:00,320 --> 00:27:03,479
Speaker 2: you break that pocket that's going to extend plays to

634
00:27:03,520 --> 00:27:05,480
Speaker 2: the degree that even a steps In Bennett would much

635
00:27:05,560 --> 00:27:08,639
Speaker 2: less a Joe Burrow did so you can take the

636
00:27:08,800 --> 00:27:11,000
Speaker 2: LSU comparisons and you throw them out the window. As

637
00:27:11,040 --> 00:27:15,320
Speaker 2: far as I'm concerned, Can their production be what LSU's

638
00:27:15,440 --> 00:27:17,240
Speaker 2: was last year? Now, that's the kind of stuff you

639
00:27:17,280 --> 00:27:19,320
Speaker 2: can talk about, But I'm not going to be the

640
00:27:19,400 --> 00:27:22,240
Speaker 2: dude who sits here and compares them without ever thinking

641
00:27:22,280 --> 00:27:23,080
Speaker 2: past the surface.

642
00:27:23,400 --> 00:27:26,040
Speaker 1: That's not what this team is. But I'll tell you

643
00:27:26,080 --> 00:27:26,960
Speaker 1: what this team does have.

644
00:27:27,080 --> 00:27:29,679
Speaker 2: This Alabama team, that gives me a lot of confidence

645
00:27:29,880 --> 00:27:31,960
Speaker 2: that they'll be able to still move the ball Saturday night.

646
00:27:32,480 --> 00:27:36,360
Speaker 2: Their pass protection has been spectacular, and so I think

647
00:27:36,400 --> 00:27:38,840
Speaker 2: they're a lot better in pass pro than LSU's offensive

648
00:27:38,880 --> 00:27:40,360
Speaker 2: line was last year, and that team.

649
00:27:40,119 --> 00:27:41,800
Speaker 1: Won the Joe More Award. I want to remind you

650
00:27:41,840 --> 00:27:42,000
Speaker 1: of that.

651
00:27:43,280 --> 00:27:46,480
Speaker 2: What Joe Burrow had the ability to do in extending plays,

652
00:27:46,800 --> 00:27:48,520
Speaker 2: I think maybe this Alabama team has.

653
00:27:48,440 --> 00:27:49,960
Speaker 1: The ability to do in that.

654
00:27:50,160 --> 00:27:52,720
Speaker 2: You just give your quarterback more time to throw, and

655
00:27:52,800 --> 00:27:55,080
Speaker 2: you've seen Dan Lanning and company bring a ton of

656
00:27:55,080 --> 00:27:56,640
Speaker 2: really exotic blitzer early on.

657
00:27:57,680 --> 00:27:58,879
Speaker 1: I don't necessarily know that that.

658
00:27:58,920 --> 00:28:01,520
Speaker 2: Scares Alabama as as much as maybe it does other teams,

659
00:28:01,520 --> 00:28:05,040
Speaker 2: because Number one is they got more receiving options. Number Two,

660
00:28:05,320 --> 00:28:07,280
Speaker 2: you got to back out of the backfield. Naje Harris,

661
00:28:07,280 --> 00:28:10,159
Speaker 2: that's very good pass catcher, as is Miller. Forrestall, you

662
00:28:10,280 --> 00:28:12,399
Speaker 2: got three wide receivers who can run drags over the

663
00:28:12,400 --> 00:28:13,400
Speaker 2: middle at any given point.

664
00:28:13,720 --> 00:28:16,639
Speaker 1: I don't necessarily know. I think early on they'll blitz him.

665
00:28:16,640 --> 00:28:17,560
Speaker 2: I don't know if it's going to be an all

666
00:28:17,640 --> 00:28:19,880
Speaker 2: night thing, because I really expect Alabama to be able

667
00:28:19,880 --> 00:28:22,360
Speaker 2: to adapt to that pretty quickly, and so at that point,

668
00:28:22,920 --> 00:28:24,600
Speaker 2: I mean, it'll just kind of be strength on strength,

669
00:28:24,640 --> 00:28:26,520
Speaker 2: and I'm really looking forward to that because this Georgia

670
00:28:26,520 --> 00:28:29,480
Speaker 2: pass rush, now you don't have to bring a bunch

671
00:28:29,520 --> 00:28:31,560
Speaker 2: of exotic blitzer So far, this s you're against most teams,

672
00:28:31,640 --> 00:28:34,120
Speaker 2: they've been able to get pressure without having to do that.

673
00:28:34,560 --> 00:28:36,760
Speaker 1: It's just the cherry on top when they bring the blitzers.

674
00:28:37,000 --> 00:28:39,000
Speaker 2: They need to get pressure without having to bring a

675
00:28:39,000 --> 00:28:41,080
Speaker 2: lot of guys, you know, in other words, do what

676
00:28:41,120 --> 00:28:43,680
Speaker 2: we've talked about Alabama doing for a long time.

677
00:28:43,840 --> 00:28:46,360
Speaker 1: So, man, I'll tell you what Colin.

678
00:28:46,480 --> 00:28:48,720
Speaker 2: Let's show the game capsule, and so let's tell you

679
00:28:49,040 --> 00:28:52,040
Speaker 2: what the Vegas number is at the moment at six.

680
00:28:52,560 --> 00:28:53,680
Speaker 1: And that's what our number is.

681
00:28:53,760 --> 00:28:55,880
Speaker 2: If you're listening on the podcast, we have it shorter

682
00:28:56,200 --> 00:28:58,600
Speaker 2: than the Vegas guys. Do we have it at Alabama

683
00:28:58,920 --> 00:29:03,160
Speaker 2: minus three. I've developed a principle here that has impacted

684
00:29:03,200 --> 00:29:05,840
Speaker 2: my decision on this game, which was made about an

685
00:29:05,840 --> 00:29:11,400
Speaker 2: hour ago. Full context, I probably a couple of years ago.

686
00:29:11,920 --> 00:29:14,400
Speaker 2: I got burned a few times in games like these,

687
00:29:14,600 --> 00:29:18,680
Speaker 2: And what happened was there were games It's pointless to

688
00:29:18,720 --> 00:29:20,440
Speaker 2: mention which ones they are, but there were games where

689
00:29:21,240 --> 00:29:25,360
Speaker 2: there was a team that had an edge roster wise, defensively,

690
00:29:25,920 --> 00:29:27,920
Speaker 2: probably the more physical team. And I got burned a

691
00:29:27,920 --> 00:29:32,680
Speaker 2: couple times riding those factors over an elite offense. And

692
00:29:32,720 --> 00:29:35,360
Speaker 2: so I told myself, if I get evenly matched games

693
00:29:35,360 --> 00:29:37,720
Speaker 2: down the road, what I'm going to do is I

694
00:29:37,760 --> 00:29:39,960
Speaker 2: am going to divorce myself of a lot of the

695
00:29:40,000 --> 00:29:42,920
Speaker 2: stuff that I grew up being taught. You have to

696
00:29:42,960 --> 00:29:45,040
Speaker 2: have to win. You have to have elite defense to win.

697
00:29:45,200 --> 00:29:48,480
Speaker 2: Elite defense will always beat elite offense. That's not always

698
00:29:48,560 --> 00:29:49,360
Speaker 2: the case anymore.

699
00:29:49,960 --> 00:29:50,040
Speaker 1: So.

700
00:29:50,560 --> 00:29:52,760
Speaker 2: What I have is the freeze point theory that I've

701
00:29:52,800 --> 00:29:53,320
Speaker 2: talked about.

702
00:29:53,360 --> 00:29:54,880
Speaker 1: It's two way go in this one.

703
00:29:54,880 --> 00:29:58,280
Speaker 2: By the way, there's a certain level of defense, caliber

704
00:29:58,320 --> 00:30:00,720
Speaker 2: of defense. Collectively, all three levels you have to have

705
00:30:01,000 --> 00:30:03,600
Speaker 2: to be able to stop Alabama if you don't meet that,

706
00:30:03,720 --> 00:30:05,560
Speaker 2: just like if you're not below thirty two degrees, don't

707
00:30:05,560 --> 00:30:06,959
Speaker 2: matter how long you sit the cup of water there,

708
00:30:07,000 --> 00:30:09,600
Speaker 2: it's never freezing. If it's below freezing. Just how long

709
00:30:09,680 --> 00:30:11,240
Speaker 2: is it going to take to freeze? George is well

710
00:30:11,280 --> 00:30:14,040
Speaker 2: below freezing? Okay, the first team this year that Alabama's

711
00:30:14,040 --> 00:30:16,360
Speaker 2: face that meets that freeze point. So then the question

712
00:30:16,440 --> 00:30:20,000
Speaker 2: becomes how much can Georgia limit Alabama by A and

713
00:30:20,080 --> 00:30:22,120
Speaker 2: M had no chance. They were like thirty five degrees? Okay,

714
00:30:22,160 --> 00:30:24,760
Speaker 2: George is well down into the twenties. How long does

715
00:30:24,760 --> 00:30:26,400
Speaker 2: it take to freeze them? Well, it's the other way

716
00:30:26,440 --> 00:30:29,640
Speaker 2: around too, Just Georgia defense hasn't faced any offense that

717
00:30:29,680 --> 00:30:32,080
Speaker 2: meets the freeze point yet and they've suffocated everyone.

718
00:30:32,160 --> 00:30:34,960
Speaker 1: Well, Alabama's does. And it's not some one trick pony.

719
00:30:35,000 --> 00:30:38,400
Speaker 2: It's not a superstar running back and some decent receivers.

720
00:30:38,560 --> 00:30:41,000
Speaker 2: It's not one superstar receiver that you can brack it

721
00:30:41,080 --> 00:30:42,960
Speaker 2: and take out of a game. They got a bunch

722
00:30:42,960 --> 00:30:44,440
Speaker 2: of them. They got a pluthor of them, even after

723
00:30:44,480 --> 00:30:45,840
Speaker 2: losing a couple of them to the first round, and

724
00:30:45,840 --> 00:30:49,160
Speaker 2: a quarterback along with it, so you ask the same

725
00:30:49,200 --> 00:30:51,719
Speaker 2: thing about Bama's offense that you do about Bama's defense.

726
00:30:51,840 --> 00:30:53,600
Speaker 2: I told myself when I got burned a couple of

727
00:30:53,680 --> 00:30:57,000
Speaker 2: years ago, when in doubt roll that offense, I can

728
00:30:57,040 --> 00:30:59,400
Speaker 2: make a spectacular argument both ways here and I have

729
00:30:59,760 --> 00:31:02,680
Speaker 2: walked and run a park earlier today downtown talking to myself,

730
00:31:03,040 --> 00:31:05,000
Speaker 2: and someone saw me, and that was embarrassing.

731
00:31:05,880 --> 00:31:08,320
Speaker 1: I'm gonna roll with Alabama to win this game. Don't

732
00:31:08,320 --> 00:31:09,560
Speaker 1: know if I would have said that yesterday.

733
00:31:09,760 --> 00:31:12,560
Speaker 2: I'm gonna take Alabama to win, and strictly on principle,

734
00:31:12,600 --> 00:31:15,080
Speaker 2: because I have no strong feel I'm gonna take Georgia

735
00:31:15,120 --> 00:31:15,440
Speaker 2: to cover.

736
00:31:15,600 --> 00:31:15,960
Speaker 1: Why not?

737
00:31:16,240 --> 00:31:19,440
Speaker 2: So our model likes Georgia to cover, our model likes

738
00:31:19,480 --> 00:31:21,760
Speaker 2: Alabama to whim. And since I didn't have a strong

739
00:31:21,800 --> 00:31:23,880
Speaker 2: feeling either way, I was on the seesaw all day.

740
00:31:24,120 --> 00:31:26,360
Speaker 2: I'm gonna roll with our model, take Bama to whim

741
00:31:26,560 --> 00:31:29,400
Speaker 2: and taking Georgia to cover. And the last thing on

742
00:31:29,440 --> 00:31:32,320
Speaker 2: this planet I would do is wager money on this contest.

743
00:31:32,560 --> 00:31:38,360
Speaker 2: Really excited to watch it, though earlier today I wake

744
00:31:38,440 --> 00:31:40,640
Speaker 2: up a little bit groggy eyed because I recorded a

745
00:31:40,640 --> 00:31:43,640
Speaker 2: podcast at two o'clock last night and Barton's in the

746
00:31:43,760 --> 00:31:46,880
Speaker 2: twenty four to seven slack room, the same Barton Simmons

747
00:31:46,920 --> 00:31:48,400
Speaker 2: that body shamed me on the Barton and.

748
00:31:48,360 --> 00:31:50,040
Speaker 1: Bud podcast yesterday. But that's okay.

749
00:31:50,600 --> 00:31:53,280
Speaker 2: I know his reasons and he has to reason that

750
00:31:53,360 --> 00:31:55,400
Speaker 2: in his own heart. I know, I know where his

751
00:31:55,480 --> 00:31:57,720
Speaker 2: heart's at. I think his heart is still good. But

752
00:31:58,040 --> 00:32:01,880
Speaker 2: I just think, you know, sometimes sometimes Satan works and

753
00:32:01,960 --> 00:32:04,560
Speaker 2: sometimes he's working when you're recording a podcast, and I

754
00:32:04,600 --> 00:32:06,080
Speaker 2: just think, I just think the devil was working on

755
00:32:06,120 --> 00:32:07,200
Speaker 2: Barton a little bit yesterday.

756
00:32:07,280 --> 00:32:09,520
Speaker 1: So he bodies shamed me. That's okay. I still promoted

757
00:32:09,560 --> 00:32:10,120
Speaker 1: their podcast.

758
00:32:10,400 --> 00:32:13,040
Speaker 2: But what Barton did this morning is he drops in

759
00:32:13,080 --> 00:32:15,640
Speaker 2: the slack room and he says, hey, man, it's Team

760
00:32:15,680 --> 00:32:19,280
Speaker 2: Talent Composite Day. And so I said, yes, I knew,

761
00:32:19,320 --> 00:32:20,920
Speaker 2: I mean, we had it on our calendar, but I said,

762
00:32:20,920 --> 00:32:21,720
Speaker 2: we got a show tonight.

763
00:32:21,840 --> 00:32:23,400
Speaker 1: This is a perfect time to talk about this.

764
00:32:24,040 --> 00:32:27,440
Speaker 2: So you've heard it said, and it's accurate that a

765
00:32:27,520 --> 00:32:30,480
Speaker 2: chef is only as good as his ingredients, and that's true,

766
00:32:30,680 --> 00:32:33,240
Speaker 2: just like a coach sometimes is only as good as

767
00:32:33,280 --> 00:32:35,960
Speaker 2: the pieces he has on his roster. The twenty four

768
00:32:35,960 --> 00:32:39,000
Speaker 2: to seven Sports Team Talent Composite is quite simply a

769
00:32:39,080 --> 00:32:41,920
Speaker 2: measure of how much talent you have on your roster.

770
00:32:41,960 --> 00:32:43,320
Speaker 2: I'll tell you how we do it in just a second.

771
00:32:43,360 --> 00:32:46,479
Speaker 2: It's not that complicated. But what I do occasionally do here,

772
00:32:46,480 --> 00:32:47,840
Speaker 2: and I'm going to do it now, is I'm going

773
00:32:47,880 --> 00:32:51,120
Speaker 2: to remind you what this isn't. What this isn't is

774
00:32:51,160 --> 00:32:53,280
Speaker 2: a guarantee that if you're ranked in the top ten,

775
00:32:53,480 --> 00:32:56,440
Speaker 2: you're automatically going to be a top ten performing team.

776
00:32:56,800 --> 00:33:00,000
Speaker 1: See Texas more than the Longhorns in a little while.

777
00:33:00,560 --> 00:33:03,760
Speaker 2: However, what it also does tell us is it does

778
00:33:03,800 --> 00:33:06,400
Speaker 2: tell us there's probably a certain line where if you're

779
00:33:06,440 --> 00:33:10,080
Speaker 2: below this line on the team talent composite, probably not

780
00:33:10,240 --> 00:33:12,400
Speaker 2: standing a very good chance of being a playoff team.

781
00:33:12,680 --> 00:33:15,400
Speaker 2: So you know, maybe my Iowa State Cyclones, but that

782
00:33:15,440 --> 00:33:17,520
Speaker 2: trend this year. They're fifty fifth right now, and yet

783
00:33:17,560 --> 00:33:19,840
Speaker 2: they could possibly be in the driver's seat in the

784
00:33:19,840 --> 00:33:23,520
Speaker 2: Big twelve. We had a big win Saturday over Texas Tech.

785
00:33:23,560 --> 00:33:27,440
Speaker 2: We are excited in ames Iowa. So important note here

786
00:33:28,240 --> 00:33:30,760
Speaker 2: this is not just an aggregation of your last four

787
00:33:30,760 --> 00:33:33,640
Speaker 2: recruiting classes. What it is instead, because you know a

788
00:33:33,680 --> 00:33:35,200
Speaker 2: lot of those guys never make it to campus.

789
00:33:35,200 --> 00:33:36,280
Speaker 1: A lot of those guys transfer.

790
00:33:36,560 --> 00:33:39,360
Speaker 2: It is a shot for shot measure right now, this

791
00:33:39,520 --> 00:33:42,200
Speaker 2: very moment in time of who's on your roster and

792
00:33:42,480 --> 00:33:44,480
Speaker 2: how good are they? What star rating did we have

793
00:33:44,560 --> 00:33:46,440
Speaker 2: on them, what player rating did we have on them

794
00:33:46,480 --> 00:33:47,440
Speaker 2: coming out of high school?

795
00:33:47,600 --> 00:33:48,480
Speaker 1: Who's actually here?

796
00:33:48,640 --> 00:33:52,160
Speaker 2: Attrition is taken into account, transfers out and in taken

797
00:33:52,200 --> 00:33:55,280
Speaker 2: into account. Alabama's been number one on this the last

798
00:33:55,320 --> 00:33:58,560
Speaker 2: four years. They've been at or near the top pretty much.

799
00:33:58,720 --> 00:34:00,800
Speaker 2: A couple of years after saving was was able to

800
00:34:00,840 --> 00:34:04,120
Speaker 2: build the roster, and this tool came along about twenty fifteen.

801
00:34:04,520 --> 00:34:08,479
Speaker 2: So Georgia's overtaken. That is the point right on time.

802
00:34:08,880 --> 00:34:10,600
Speaker 2: Not necessarily a saying we timed it up like this,

803
00:34:10,680 --> 00:34:13,759
Speaker 2: but it is very convenient. Bama plays Georgia Saturday night.

804
00:34:14,000 --> 00:34:18,239
Speaker 2: Georgia the number one roster in America. Alabama right there,

805
00:34:18,400 --> 00:34:21,640
Speaker 2: number two roster in America. Fractions of a point. I

806
00:34:21,640 --> 00:34:26,120
Speaker 2: think it's five points total. Georgia's roster has sixteen guys

807
00:34:26,520 --> 00:34:30,080
Speaker 2: rated former five star. It has fifty two more rated

808
00:34:30,120 --> 00:34:33,560
Speaker 2: former four star. I do want to point this out.

809
00:34:33,880 --> 00:34:36,720
Speaker 2: This is the number one roster in America now. Difference

810
00:34:36,719 --> 00:34:40,680
Speaker 2: between Pruet at Tennessee and Kirby at Georgia, Kirby inherited

811
00:34:40,719 --> 00:34:43,080
Speaker 2: the number six roster in America, so this was already

812
00:34:43,080 --> 00:34:44,640
Speaker 2: a pretty good roster when he got there.

813
00:34:44,840 --> 00:34:46,160
Speaker 1: He just made it elite.

814
00:34:46,280 --> 00:34:48,719
Speaker 2: Now, as for Alabama, I said, Georgia's got sixteen five

815
00:34:48,760 --> 00:34:51,520
Speaker 2: stars fifty two four stars. Bama's got twelve five stars

816
00:34:51,560 --> 00:34:54,239
Speaker 2: fifty eight four stars. So if you add both of

817
00:34:54,239 --> 00:34:56,319
Speaker 2: those up, Bama's got a couple of more four and

818
00:34:56,360 --> 00:34:58,040
Speaker 2: five star combined than Georgia does.

819
00:34:58,040 --> 00:34:59,640
Speaker 1: Georgia's got a few more five stars, and.

820
00:34:59,600 --> 00:35:01,799
Speaker 2: For all I know, that could be the fractions of

821
00:35:01,840 --> 00:35:04,279
Speaker 2: difference in inches that make up the game Saturday night.

822
00:35:04,480 --> 00:35:06,680
Speaker 2: So what a showdown that is. But some other teams

823
00:35:06,680 --> 00:35:09,960
Speaker 2: to pay attention to here, Clemson is number four. If

824
00:35:09,960 --> 00:35:12,200
Speaker 2: you don't know anything about the rosters, you may say, ooh,

825
00:35:12,200 --> 00:35:15,319
Speaker 2: Clemson dropped because they've been winning titles, and well now

826
00:35:15,320 --> 00:35:17,319
Speaker 2: they're all the way down at number four. No, no, no, no, no,

827
00:35:17,600 --> 00:35:20,600
Speaker 2: they have been winning titles. Clemson's never been this high.

828
00:35:21,120 --> 00:35:24,120
Speaker 2: Clemson normally floats in like the five to fifteen range

829
00:35:24,120 --> 00:35:28,560
Speaker 2: somewhere around there. Now they're number four and rising. This

830
00:35:28,800 --> 00:35:31,200
Speaker 2: is the Deshaun Watson impact. As I told you. This

831
00:35:31,239 --> 00:35:33,720
Speaker 2: is what I pull for with Penn State and Notre Dame.

832
00:35:33,880 --> 00:35:37,239
Speaker 2: Get a superstar quarterback in there. That changes the way

833
00:35:37,280 --> 00:35:39,120
Speaker 2: you brand your program and the way your program is

834
00:35:39,160 --> 00:35:42,360
Speaker 2: perceived nationally. Deshaun Watson did that for Clemson, and then

835
00:35:42,400 --> 00:35:44,280
Speaker 2: all of a sudden, everyone wanted to come there and play,

836
00:35:44,280 --> 00:35:48,160
Speaker 2: including elite quarterbacks. See Trevor Lawrence dj Uyangala Lea is

837
00:35:48,200 --> 00:35:50,480
Speaker 2: sitting on the bench over there, whereas he would be

838
00:35:50,520 --> 00:35:53,000
Speaker 2: playing for most teams right now. So they're not going anywhere.

839
00:35:53,000 --> 00:35:56,319
Speaker 2: They're only trending upwards. Here's the assumption, though that I'm

840
00:35:56,320 --> 00:36:00,000
Speaker 2: not making quite yet. The assumption is Clemson is all right.

841
00:36:00,000 --> 00:36:02,640
Speaker 2: Aready won titles? Clemson with an ass of course, even

842
00:36:02,680 --> 00:36:04,919
Speaker 2: though I pronounce the Z, They've already won titles. Okay,

843
00:36:04,960 --> 00:36:08,319
Speaker 2: So now if they've already won titles, now they're going

844
00:36:08,400 --> 00:36:10,640
Speaker 2: to be more talented than they have been when they

845
00:36:10,680 --> 00:36:13,760
Speaker 2: won those titles. That means they'll just win more titles

846
00:36:13,800 --> 00:36:16,919
Speaker 2: by a wider margin. Right, could be the case. They've

847
00:36:16,920 --> 00:36:19,239
Speaker 2: got a strong culture up there. Could very well be

848
00:36:19,280 --> 00:36:22,400
Speaker 2: the case. But I do want to just remind you

849
00:36:22,440 --> 00:36:25,560
Speaker 2: of something this has happened before. I'm not saying it's

850
00:36:25,560 --> 00:36:28,879
Speaker 2: going to happen to Clemson. It's happened before. Sometimes when

851
00:36:28,920 --> 00:36:31,440
Speaker 2: you have that really tight knit culture and you got

852
00:36:31,440 --> 00:36:34,680
Speaker 2: a good roster, plenty good enough to win a championship,

853
00:36:34,719 --> 00:36:37,320
Speaker 2: especially if you got an elite quarterback. But it's very

854
00:36:37,480 --> 00:36:40,360
Speaker 2: it feels very local in some ways. It just feels

855
00:36:40,840 --> 00:36:43,879
Speaker 2: very tight knit and everyone's an insider. There really are

856
00:36:43,960 --> 00:36:44,839
Speaker 2: no outsiders there.

857
00:36:44,840 --> 00:36:46,839
Speaker 1: It's very much a family thing and it's just it's

858
00:36:46,840 --> 00:36:48,359
Speaker 1: one like rubber band ball.

859
00:36:49,440 --> 00:36:51,480
Speaker 2: Then you win with that rubber band ball, then all

860
00:36:51,520 --> 00:36:53,200
Speaker 2: of a sudden, rubber bands from all over the country

861
00:36:53,239 --> 00:36:53,640
Speaker 2: want to come in.

862
00:36:53,680 --> 00:36:54,760
Speaker 1: They want to be part of the ball.

863
00:36:54,840 --> 00:36:59,160
Speaker 2: But sometimes guys are there not because they were drawn

864
00:36:59,200 --> 00:37:02,120
Speaker 2: to Clemson. Sometimes guys are there because, well, they were

865
00:37:02,200 --> 00:37:04,000
Speaker 2: drawn to winning, just like they're.

866
00:37:03,719 --> 00:37:05,040
Speaker 1: Going to other places to win.

867
00:37:05,640 --> 00:37:09,239
Speaker 2: And sometimes that can have, if things go sideways, an

868
00:37:09,280 --> 00:37:12,160
Speaker 2: adverse impact on your locker room. I've talked about this

869
00:37:12,200 --> 00:37:14,880
Speaker 2: with Clemson folks before. They assure me, nope, culture is

870
00:37:14,880 --> 00:37:17,880
Speaker 2: different here. We have a different filtration process and vetting process.

871
00:37:17,920 --> 00:37:20,440
Speaker 2: When we bring guys in. We say no to some

872
00:37:20,520 --> 00:37:22,920
Speaker 2: guys who are character risks. I know that, I know

873
00:37:23,000 --> 00:37:24,839
Speaker 2: all that, so I'm not saying it's going to happen.

874
00:37:24,880 --> 00:37:28,360
Speaker 2: I'm just saying the blind assumption I'm gonna hold off on.

875
00:37:28,880 --> 00:37:31,200
Speaker 2: But it's definitely a good sign. I'd much rather be

876
00:37:31,239 --> 00:37:34,920
Speaker 2: number four than number eight. For example, Florida is number seven.

877
00:37:35,239 --> 00:37:37,480
Speaker 2: That's the highest the Gators have been under Dan Mullen.

878
00:37:37,719 --> 00:37:40,680
Speaker 2: Notre Dame is number eight. That's the highest that the

879
00:37:40,719 --> 00:37:43,839
Speaker 2: Irish have been under Brian Kelly. Both of these are

880
00:37:43,920 --> 00:37:48,680
Speaker 2: new highs. And this just screams to me, superstar quarterback

881
00:37:48,719 --> 00:37:52,439
Speaker 2: away from being a national championship contender now at Notre Dame.

882
00:37:52,520 --> 00:37:55,359
Speaker 2: I would also argue need some better perimeter skill, but

883
00:37:55,600 --> 00:37:58,120
Speaker 2: by and law, and its maybe a little bit speedier secondary,

884
00:37:58,160 --> 00:38:01,080
Speaker 2: but by and large, look at where they're positioned. And

885
00:38:01,239 --> 00:38:03,839
Speaker 2: I get so tired of people telling me Notre Dame's overrated.

886
00:38:04,360 --> 00:38:07,279
Speaker 2: No they're not. They're rated exactly where they should be. No, no,

887
00:38:07,280 --> 00:38:10,880
Speaker 2: they're overrated. Man, they never win national titles. Who's predicting

888
00:38:10,880 --> 00:38:13,400
Speaker 2: them to win a national title? In order to be overrated?

889
00:38:13,760 --> 00:38:16,880
Speaker 2: It means you are falling short of where people rate you.

890
00:38:17,000 --> 00:38:19,000
Speaker 2: No one's rating Notre Dame a top four team in

891
00:38:19,000 --> 00:38:21,960
Speaker 2: the country. They never do that. Actually, no one does that.

892
00:38:22,239 --> 00:38:25,840
Speaker 2: Outside of Notre Dame fans, I mean outsiders, people say,

893
00:38:26,000 --> 00:38:29,160
Speaker 2: all right, this team, they're not Clemson, aer Alabama, Ohio State, Georgia,

894
00:38:29,200 --> 00:38:32,600
Speaker 2: but the next tier, that's where they are. That's absolutely

895
00:38:32,640 --> 00:38:34,759
Speaker 2: where they are. They've had double digit win years three

896
00:38:34,840 --> 00:38:36,799
Speaker 2: years in a row. Now you see they're a top

897
00:38:36,840 --> 00:38:39,480
Speaker 2: ten team on the talent composite, like, that's where they are.

898
00:38:39,520 --> 00:38:42,239
Speaker 2: They're not overrated at all. They're properly rated. To me,

899
00:38:42,600 --> 00:38:45,120
Speaker 2: Florida though, this is a good sign. Now now they

900
00:38:45,120 --> 00:38:46,840
Speaker 2: got to kick it into the next gear. Recruiting it

901
00:38:46,880 --> 00:38:51,080
Speaker 2: helps to win games, and so that defensive roster, for example,

902
00:38:51,440 --> 00:38:55,040
Speaker 2: they've also infused transfer talent there. Brenton Cox for examples,

903
00:38:55,040 --> 00:38:56,759
Speaker 2: a big time player for them right now. He came

904
00:38:56,760 --> 00:38:59,920
Speaker 2: in via transfer from Georgia. No less, multiple ways to

905
00:39:00,080 --> 00:39:03,200
Speaker 2: stack a roster up. As I said, Iowa state number

906
00:39:03,200 --> 00:39:06,040
Speaker 2: fifty five. So that's the antithesis of this. You don't

907
00:39:06,080 --> 00:39:08,960
Speaker 2: have to be top ten to win, but you've got

908
00:39:08,960 --> 00:39:11,319
Speaker 2: to have a certain identity about yourself and you got

909
00:39:11,320 --> 00:39:13,160
Speaker 2: to be rock solid culturally if you're not going to

910
00:39:13,200 --> 00:39:15,480
Speaker 2: be in this top ten to beat teams who are

911
00:39:15,480 --> 00:39:18,360
Speaker 2: in the top ten by ten miles and This is

912
00:39:18,400 --> 00:39:18,840
Speaker 2: no mystery.

913
00:39:18,840 --> 00:39:20,319
Speaker 1: We're about to talk about this team in a second.

914
00:39:20,360 --> 00:39:23,640
Speaker 2: The most underachieving nexus in the college football universe is

915
00:39:23,680 --> 00:39:26,360
Speaker 2: the University of Texas. They are the number five roster

916
00:39:26,440 --> 00:39:28,919
Speaker 2: in America. They also may be the number five team

917
00:39:28,920 --> 00:39:32,319
Speaker 2: in their own conference. It's beyond embarrassing what's happening there

918
00:39:32,400 --> 00:39:34,680
Speaker 2: right now. I have notes on the piece of paper

919
00:39:34,719 --> 00:39:36,640
Speaker 2: in front of me, Colin, for all these other teams,

920
00:39:36,719 --> 00:39:39,920
Speaker 2: and for Texas. I just drew a frownie face. So

921
00:39:40,080 --> 00:39:44,239
Speaker 2: Texas is in frownie face territory. But it may not

922
00:39:44,280 --> 00:39:47,200
Speaker 2: be a good sign for Tom Herman, but for the

923
00:39:47,239 --> 00:39:50,600
Speaker 2: guy who may come in behind him. Look at the cupboard.

924
00:39:50,680 --> 00:39:53,960
Speaker 2: It's stacked. Someone just went to the grocery store. It's

925
00:39:53,960 --> 00:39:56,160
Speaker 2: like a condo and they just stocked it for you,

926
00:39:56,200 --> 00:39:57,840
Speaker 2: And all you got to do is drive down for

927
00:39:57,880 --> 00:39:58,360
Speaker 2: the weekend.

928
00:39:59,160 --> 00:40:00,400
Speaker 1: Oregon and Mi Michigan.

929
00:40:00,480 --> 00:40:02,640
Speaker 2: Barton wrote a really good summary on this on twenty

930
00:40:02,640 --> 00:40:04,239
Speaker 2: four seven sports dot Com. It's still there if you

931
00:40:04,239 --> 00:40:05,839
Speaker 2: want to look at it, and he pointed out these

932
00:40:05,840 --> 00:40:08,480
Speaker 2: two at the very end, And I agree, Mario Cristobaul,

933
00:40:08,640 --> 00:40:10,160
Speaker 2: it's no mystery of what he's been doing on the

934
00:40:10,160 --> 00:40:12,399
Speaker 2: West Coast Oregon. When he got there was the number

935
00:40:12,440 --> 00:40:15,280
Speaker 2: twenty five roster. They are now the number twelve roster.

936
00:40:15,520 --> 00:40:18,200
Speaker 2: They've got a big time class coming in and there

937
00:40:18,280 --> 00:40:20,960
Speaker 2: is another team in the Big Ten going the opposite direction,

938
00:40:21,560 --> 00:40:24,480
Speaker 2: and this is not a good sign. There's no other

939
00:40:24,520 --> 00:40:26,919
Speaker 2: way to dress this up. Michigan had the number seven

940
00:40:27,000 --> 00:40:30,040
Speaker 2: roster in America when Jim Harball was there in twenty fifteen.

941
00:40:30,840 --> 00:40:35,880
Speaker 2: They're now number seventeen. So they are about as badly

942
00:40:35,920 --> 00:40:37,960
Speaker 2: in need of one of those kind of shifts and

943
00:40:38,080 --> 00:40:42,319
Speaker 2: identity as any team in America is. Hopefully, you know,

944
00:40:42,560 --> 00:40:45,040
Speaker 2: something crazy happens this year with Joe Milton at quarterback,

945
00:40:45,080 --> 00:40:48,680
Speaker 2: and you know Josh Gaddis and his system really takes

946
00:40:48,760 --> 00:40:51,920
Speaker 2: root in year two but remains to be seen still

947
00:40:51,920 --> 00:40:53,879
Speaker 2: at Michigan. So that's a really interesting thing. I would

948
00:40:53,920 --> 00:40:55,520
Speaker 2: highly advise you to go read that. On twenty four

949
00:40:55,520 --> 00:40:58,400
Speaker 2: seven Sports dot Com, we're going to wrap up.

950
00:40:58,680 --> 00:40:59,600
Speaker 1: Well, we've got two things to get to.

951
00:40:59,640 --> 00:41:01,600
Speaker 2: We got BET's coming up at the end of the show,

952
00:41:02,600 --> 00:41:05,160
Speaker 2: the state of the program at Texas As. I said,

953
00:41:05,160 --> 00:41:07,080
Speaker 2: it's maybe not something if you're a Virginia Tech fan

954
00:41:07,120 --> 00:41:08,960
Speaker 2: you care a whole lot about but as I also

955
00:41:09,080 --> 00:41:11,520
Speaker 2: told you, Texas is a keystone program.

956
00:41:11,719 --> 00:41:13,560
Speaker 1: What happens there affects everyone.

957
00:41:13,760 --> 00:41:16,720
Speaker 2: It affects the entire sport, the entire ecosystem is affected

958
00:41:16,719 --> 00:41:20,040
Speaker 2: if there's a job opening, for example, at Texas, and

959
00:41:20,280 --> 00:41:22,600
Speaker 2: there could be one in the not too distant future.

960
00:41:22,760 --> 00:41:25,000
Speaker 2: I told you last Saturday, I thought the Red River

961
00:41:25,080 --> 00:41:27,840
Speaker 2: shootout between Texas and OU, I thought it was a

962
00:41:27,840 --> 00:41:30,239
Speaker 2: game Oklahoma would love to have. I thought it was

963
00:41:30,239 --> 00:41:33,240
Speaker 2: a game Texas. Tom Herman had to have. Texas lost

964
00:41:33,280 --> 00:41:35,600
Speaker 2: that game. I don't think Tom Herman's going to be

965
00:41:35,640 --> 00:41:37,680
Speaker 2: the head coach at Texas next year as a result

966
00:41:37,719 --> 00:41:40,279
Speaker 2: of that. I don't think anything's happening this week, but

967
00:41:40,360 --> 00:41:44,759
Speaker 2: I think that things were set in motion after that

968
00:41:44,840 --> 00:41:48,000
Speaker 2: loss that will result in you having a new head

969
00:41:48,000 --> 00:41:50,120
Speaker 2: coach at Texas in twenty twenty one. This is my

970
00:41:50,480 --> 00:41:53,640
Speaker 2: opinion on this. There's a lot obvious on the surface.

971
00:41:53,719 --> 00:41:57,480
Speaker 2: They are discombobulated. They are one of the high penalty

972
00:41:57,480 --> 00:42:00,799
Speaker 2: teams in college football. They never played assistantly. They are

973
00:42:00,840 --> 00:42:03,600
Speaker 2: a mistake prone. All that's on the surface, and that's clear. Also,

974
00:42:03,640 --> 00:42:06,440
Speaker 2: they're just not winning enough games. That's obvious. There's a

975
00:42:06,480 --> 00:42:08,120
Speaker 2: lot of other stuff going on to Texas, and this

976
00:42:08,160 --> 00:42:10,120
Speaker 2: is where the drama really kicks in behind the surface

977
00:42:10,320 --> 00:42:13,640
Speaker 2: that's less obvious. Sam Ellinger, you're still looking at the

978
00:42:13,640 --> 00:42:15,320
Speaker 2: picture of him right now if you're watching it on YouTube.

979
00:42:16,400 --> 00:42:17,200
Speaker 1: There was a moment.

980
00:42:17,480 --> 00:42:20,560
Speaker 2: It's been a big talk in Texas circles this week

981
00:42:20,600 --> 00:42:23,359
Speaker 2: that maybe you're not familiar with. They've had a big

982
00:42:23,440 --> 00:42:25,719
Speaker 2: controversy about the Eyes of Texas out there, the song

983
00:42:26,000 --> 00:42:29,680
Speaker 2: that they played after the game, and it is ingrained.

984
00:42:29,920 --> 00:42:31,880
Speaker 2: It is one of the layers of the fabric of

985
00:42:31,960 --> 00:42:35,680
Speaker 2: Texas football culture. They played at weddings, they played at birthdays,

986
00:42:35,960 --> 00:42:37,080
Speaker 2: they played at graduation.

987
00:42:37,239 --> 00:42:38,239
Speaker 1: It's a big deal.

988
00:42:38,520 --> 00:42:41,040
Speaker 2: It may sound silly to you, it's a huge deal

989
00:42:41,160 --> 00:42:44,520
Speaker 2: to those folks. Sam Ellinger was one of I can't

990
00:42:44,520 --> 00:42:46,680
Speaker 2: tell you he was the only one I know from

991
00:42:46,719 --> 00:42:48,840
Speaker 2: the pictures I saw. He was one of the only

992
00:42:48,920 --> 00:42:52,320
Speaker 2: kids in that entire roster standing on the field after

993
00:42:52,360 --> 00:42:55,120
Speaker 2: the game Saturday with the horns up. They just lost

994
00:42:55,200 --> 00:42:58,839
Speaker 2: in devastating fashion when they played Eyes of Texas. Folks

995
00:42:58,880 --> 00:43:02,640
Speaker 2: are irate about and they're irate because they feel like

996
00:43:02,680 --> 00:43:05,080
Speaker 2: Tom Herman's lost his locker room, or maybe he never

997
00:43:05,120 --> 00:43:07,000
Speaker 2: had a firm grasp on it. And I was reading

998
00:43:07,040 --> 00:43:09,160
Speaker 2: Bobby Burton talk about this over on Horns twenty four

999
00:43:09,160 --> 00:43:10,840
Speaker 2: to seven to day, and he made a good point.

1000
00:43:11,120 --> 00:43:13,200
Speaker 2: And he's obviously far more dialed in at Texas than

1001
00:43:13,239 --> 00:43:15,200
Speaker 2: I am, but he made a really good point. He said,

1002
00:43:15,960 --> 00:43:19,239
Speaker 2: you know, in his estimation, he thinks Herman kind of

1003
00:43:19,280 --> 00:43:20,799
Speaker 2: tried to play things both ways here.

1004
00:43:20,840 --> 00:43:22,440
Speaker 1: He thought winning would cure everything.

1005
00:43:22,480 --> 00:43:24,560
Speaker 2: He thought they'd get into the season and he thought

1006
00:43:24,600 --> 00:43:27,960
Speaker 2: they'd be winning games and so all that stuff would subside.

1007
00:43:28,320 --> 00:43:31,680
Speaker 2: And you know, players that claimed they didn't feel comfortable

1008
00:43:31,719 --> 00:43:34,200
Speaker 2: standing on the field when that song was played, all

1009
00:43:34,239 --> 00:43:36,359
Speaker 2: that would kind of be swept away because everyone would

1010
00:43:36,400 --> 00:43:39,680
Speaker 2: be winning and things would be hunky dorry. Well, there

1011
00:43:39,719 --> 00:43:42,880
Speaker 2: aren't winning and things aren't honky dorry, and so now

1012
00:43:43,320 --> 00:43:45,320
Speaker 2: there's nothing to fall back on. Really, a lot of

1013
00:43:45,360 --> 00:43:47,440
Speaker 2: people viewed this as the last straw, not just the

1014
00:43:47,480 --> 00:43:49,880
Speaker 2: loss to Oklahoma, but then that scene on the field

1015
00:43:49,880 --> 00:43:52,400
Speaker 2: was an entire microcosm in many people's minds in Austin

1016
00:43:52,440 --> 00:43:55,760
Speaker 2: and beyond of what Texas football is under Tom Herman,

1017
00:43:55,920 --> 00:43:59,080
Speaker 2: and much more importantly, what it hasn't been under Tom Herman.

1018
00:44:00,160 --> 00:44:02,760
Speaker 2: And I agree with what Bobby was saying, for example,

1019
00:44:02,880 --> 00:44:04,600
Speaker 2: and what some other Texas folks I've talked to this

1020
00:44:04,640 --> 00:44:05,360
Speaker 2: week have said.

1021
00:44:05,480 --> 00:44:06,400
Speaker 1: There's no butt.

1022
00:44:06,840 --> 00:44:10,240
Speaker 2: Sometimes when you got a guy, you know, Greg Marshall's

1023
00:44:10,239 --> 00:44:11,560
Speaker 2: been under fire, which a toss state.

1024
00:44:11,719 --> 00:44:14,359
Speaker 1: For example, this week a report came out about how

1025
00:44:14,360 --> 00:44:15,480
Speaker 1: he had treated players.

1026
00:44:15,760 --> 00:44:18,920
Speaker 2: There's a butt with Greg Marshall, and the butt is well,

1027
00:44:18,960 --> 00:44:20,839
Speaker 2: but he wins a whole lot. You know, if you're

1028
00:44:20,840 --> 00:44:23,719
Speaker 2: going to defend Greg Marshall, well, but he does win.

1029
00:44:24,960 --> 00:44:27,239
Speaker 2: This hasn't been There's been no allegation of Tom Herman

1030
00:44:27,320 --> 00:44:28,440
Speaker 2: abusing players or anything like that.

1031
00:44:28,480 --> 00:44:29,520
Speaker 1: But what I'm saying is.

1032
00:44:30,280 --> 00:44:32,479
Speaker 2: People are mad at him, and people are very upset

1033
00:44:32,480 --> 00:44:33,600
Speaker 2: with the way the programs is being run.

1034
00:44:33,640 --> 00:44:35,680
Speaker 1: There's no butt. What do you fall back on?

1035
00:44:36,160 --> 00:44:39,640
Speaker 2: What's better now, what's trending in the right direction with Texas?

1036
00:44:39,680 --> 00:44:43,600
Speaker 2: There's no positive, there's nothing. You got the multi year

1037
00:44:43,640 --> 00:44:46,480
Speaker 2: experience quarterback there. This is the year we talked about

1038
00:44:46,480 --> 00:44:48,440
Speaker 2: this in the preseason. This was the year it all

1039
00:44:48,480 --> 00:44:50,000
Speaker 2: should be happening for Texas.

1040
00:44:50,160 --> 00:44:50,520
Speaker 1: It's not.

1041
00:44:50,840 --> 00:44:54,120
Speaker 2: So there's nothing. Even if someone wants to defend you,

1042
00:44:53,800 --> 00:44:56,360
Speaker 2: what do you say if I were to be in

1043
00:44:56,400 --> 00:44:58,920
Speaker 2: a debate setting, if this were a debate class, and

1044
00:44:59,239 --> 00:45:02,000
Speaker 2: I were handed Tom Herman as the cause that I

1045
00:45:02,040 --> 00:45:04,920
Speaker 2: had to defend. It'd be a short debate, I'll tell

1046
00:45:04,960 --> 00:45:06,960
Speaker 2: you that. And I pride myself on my debate skills.

1047
00:45:07,000 --> 00:45:10,040
Speaker 2: It'd be a short debate. I had another person I

1048
00:45:10,080 --> 00:45:12,200
Speaker 2: was talking to this week. I kind of asked them

1049
00:45:12,239 --> 00:45:15,120
Speaker 2: to be the devil's advocate because they agree that they

1050
00:45:15,239 --> 00:45:16,920
Speaker 2: probably don't want Herman around much longer.

1051
00:45:17,000 --> 00:45:19,120
Speaker 1: But I said, what are people saying.

1052
00:45:18,840 --> 00:45:23,040
Speaker 2: At Texas who aren't necessarily sold that a move needs

1053
00:45:23,080 --> 00:45:25,520
Speaker 2: to be made? Because a lot of the power brokers

1054
00:45:25,840 --> 00:45:28,279
Speaker 2: are sold that a move needs to be made and

1055
00:45:28,360 --> 00:45:31,680
Speaker 2: are willing to withhold certain things and resources and assets

1056
00:45:31,760 --> 00:45:33,440
Speaker 2: if a move isn't made. But I said, what are

1057
00:45:33,440 --> 00:45:35,000
Speaker 2: people saying, what's the other side of this coin? There's

1058
00:45:35,000 --> 00:45:37,920
Speaker 2: got to be another side. Well, it'll wreck the recruiting class.

1059
00:45:38,360 --> 00:45:41,120
Speaker 2: And I laughed and they said, no, no, seriously, that's

1060
00:45:41,120 --> 00:45:43,080
Speaker 2: what they're saying. I couldn't believe it, Like that's the

1061
00:45:43,120 --> 00:45:45,680
Speaker 2: best that you came back with, because no one at

1062
00:45:45,719 --> 00:45:48,080
Speaker 2: Texas ever comes back with the same thing you would

1063
00:45:48,080 --> 00:45:50,080
Speaker 2: say at South Carolina right now, which is it's going

1064
00:45:50,120 --> 00:45:51,600
Speaker 2: to cost a lot of money to buy him out

1065
00:45:52,080 --> 00:45:55,960
Speaker 2: that stuff surrounding error for them. That's an office supply

1066
00:45:56,040 --> 00:45:58,120
Speaker 2: budget for some of the Texas big money folks.

1067
00:45:58,239 --> 00:45:59,759
Speaker 1: So no one cares about the money money.

1068
00:46:00,320 --> 00:46:02,960
Speaker 2: I mean, we're sitting here calling our betting segment the

1069
00:46:03,040 --> 00:46:05,200
Speaker 2: Ram and Noodle Express. They live in a different world

1070
00:46:05,400 --> 00:46:08,800
Speaker 2: out there in the OENG world, the oil and gas industry.

1071
00:46:08,800 --> 00:46:10,920
Speaker 2: They different world, so they don't worry about the money.

1072
00:46:11,040 --> 00:46:15,400
Speaker 2: But the recruiting class, that's what I've been told, could suffer. Obviously.

1073
00:46:15,640 --> 00:46:19,040
Speaker 2: The retort from anyone with common sense is what's happening

1074
00:46:19,120 --> 00:46:19,600
Speaker 2: right now?

1075
00:46:20,239 --> 00:46:21,520
Speaker 1: Did you not hear what I just said?

1076
00:46:21,600 --> 00:46:23,920
Speaker 2: We just did the team talent composite For those of

1077
00:46:23,920 --> 00:46:25,920
Speaker 2: you watching the individual video, not the whole show.

1078
00:46:26,440 --> 00:46:29,040
Speaker 1: Texas has the number five roster in America right now.

1079
00:46:29,440 --> 00:46:30,160
Speaker 1: They suck.

1080
00:46:30,680 --> 00:46:33,320
Speaker 2: They're a bad football team. What are they going to

1081
00:46:33,360 --> 00:46:35,400
Speaker 2: become the number three team in America? Are they all

1082
00:46:35,800 --> 00:46:39,400
Speaker 2: gonna win after that? What's gonna happen? What sign have

1083
00:46:39,520 --> 00:46:41,920
Speaker 2: you seen that Tom Herman's gonna win with any amount

1084
00:46:41,920 --> 00:46:42,440
Speaker 2: of talent?

1085
00:46:42,640 --> 00:46:45,360
Speaker 1: I haven't seen that at all. I haven't seen that whatsoever.

1086
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Speaker 2: So I would come back at you with this, It

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Speaker 2: is inexplicable that Guys like the Brockermeyer twins, who are

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Speaker 2: Texas legacies, who probably grew up looking for a reason

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Speaker 2: to commit to Texas, are not committed to Texas.

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Speaker 1: Both of them are going to Alabama. There's no excuse

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Speaker 1: why those kids shouldn't be going to Texas. That's one

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Speaker 1: of a number of recruitments we could talk about.

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Speaker 2: If all you're worried about is your a recruiting class,

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Speaker 2: let me tell you what you can do with that argument.

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Speaker 1: I hope you hear that on the podcast.

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Speaker 2: That's what we do with that argument, because I couldn't

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Speaker 2: care less what talent you have, you can't do anything

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Speaker 2: with it, and so let's go find a guy.

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Speaker 1: Cause what it does we have recruited well here at Texas.

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Speaker 2: What it does is, as I've made this metaphorical comparison

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Speaker 2: many times this week, what it does is it goes

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Speaker 2: back to what I've said about Texas. Texas is not broken.

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Speaker 2: They're not broken. They've got the investment financially, emotionally, it's

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Speaker 2: a massive fan base, is a globally recognized brand, it's

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Speaker 2: a prestigious university. They are enhancing the game day experience there.

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Speaker 2: They are massively upgrading facilities. They're adding onto the stadium, everything,

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Speaker 2: and then some you could ever want if you were

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Speaker 2: a head coach in demand is at Texas.

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Speaker 1: They are the fighter jet.

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Speaker 2: It's already built, it's already been rolled off the assembly line.

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Speaker 2: The only problem is you just got the wrong guy

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Speaker 2: in the cockpit. In my opinion, well, guess what, you

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Speaker 2: don't have to rebuild the plane. See if you had

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Speaker 2: to rebuild the plane, like if you had to tear

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Speaker 2: everything down and start over, that's a multi year rebuild.

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Speaker 1: You don't.

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Speaker 2: You take the pilot out of the cockpit and you

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Speaker 2: put someone in there who has experience flying a jet

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Speaker 2: like that, and then you close that little glass roof

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Speaker 2: and he puts on puts on his little face mask.

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Speaker 1: He's ready to go.

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Speaker 2: Introduce himself to the secretaries, but he's ready to go

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Speaker 2: install his culture. He's ready to go. Just keep recruiting

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Speaker 2: like they are. He's ready to go. I think that's

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Speaker 2: what has to happen at Texas. I think that is,

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Speaker 2: to me now the majority sentiment about what has to

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Speaker 2: happen at Texas. All right, let's wrap it up, Colin

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Speaker 2: for at least the Tuesday show, and let's talk about

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Speaker 2: the ram Noodle Express.

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Speaker 1: We are adding two best bets tonight. They have already

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Speaker 1: been released.

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Speaker 2: If you follow me on Twitter at Late Kick Josh

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Speaker 2: and I sure do hope that you are because these

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Speaker 2: lines have moved.

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Speaker 1: That's why I release them on Twitter.

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Speaker 2: We want to get him when we can get him,

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Speaker 2: so at Late Kick Josh is where you want to

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Speaker 2: follow me there. Sunday night, gave you ver j Genia

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Speaker 2: minus two at wake Forest. That line has since moved

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Speaker 2: to three. We wanted to get it before it moved.

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Speaker 1: There.

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Speaker 2: Two more bets that we have released. North Carolina is

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Speaker 2: at Florida State this week. It is currently a sixty

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Speaker 2: three and a half point over under. We got it

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Speaker 2: at sixty one. We're taking the over. We guid it

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Speaker 2: at sixty one. Also, Cincinnati minus three. This is the

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Speaker 2: current number, so you can grab this one out. Cincinnati

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Speaker 2: is only a three point favorite against Tulsa. Now, I

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Speaker 2: want to be very clear with you, this is going

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Speaker 2: to be a massive public side. Everyone in their grandma

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Speaker 2: is going to be on Cincinnati. They are going to

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Speaker 2: see a top ten team. I didn't know Cincinnati was

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Speaker 2: ranked top ten until yesterday when I looked at the

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Speaker 2: AP for the first time this year. So I couldn't

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Speaker 2: care less where teams are ranked. I know where I

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Speaker 2: have them power rated. But Cincinnati is a top ten

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Speaker 2: team against an unranked team and they're only favored by

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Speaker 2: three free money, free money, Well that's obviously not the case,

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Speaker 2: but our numbers do love Cincinnati here. So I was

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Speaker 2: an old Merle Haggard song called Oki from Muskogi. One

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Speaker 2: of the lines in there, sometimes even squares can have

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Speaker 2: a ball. Sometimes even a square vet pays off.

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Speaker 1: And we are.

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Speaker 2: We're going with the Merle Haggard proto call on the

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Speaker 2: Cincinnati minus three line. So those are the three that

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Speaker 2: we're adding. We're adding two. We already had Virginia on

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Speaker 2: the books, so you inc Florida State over sixty one

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Speaker 2: Cincinnati minus three. If you haven't already subscribe to the

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Speaker 2: twenty four seven Sports YouTube channel, make sure you do that.

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Speaker 2: We have got a flood of new subscribers coming in.

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Speaker 2: And also, like I said, our one hundredth episode of

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Speaker 2: Late Kick Extra earlier today, so go find the podcast.

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Speaker 2: If you haven't listened to that already, that's unique. We

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Speaker 2: don't put that on YouTube, that's just in the podcast feed.

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Speaker 2: And when you do that, give me a favor really quick,

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Speaker 2: give me a five star review while you're over there.

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Speaker 2: We want to get that all the way to one thousand.

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Speaker 2: So we have got obviously a Thursday show coming up.

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Speaker 2: We're going to talk even more about what we talked

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Speaker 2: about tonight. We're gonna find out what's happening with Florida LSU.

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Speaker 2: We're gonna preview some more games Thursday night, Colin, one

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Speaker 2: of our stars almost fell off the desk. We ended

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Speaker 2: the show just in time for director Colin. For Tani

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Speaker 2: and Jordan. On the podcast side, I'm Josh Pate. Thanks

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Speaker 2: for watching. God bless have a great rest of your night.